It's hard for somebody like me to remain neutral on such a subject but I try to give as many views as possible on this issue. I agree that for some people the "program", as it is called by those who know of it, is a good stop and helps them change. But for the majority it does not help them and either they simply miss many oppritunities in life or come out a much more angry and aggressive person. First I think I should explain what WWASP is.
WWASP stands for "World Wide Association of Specialty Programs." It is a network of juvenile reform facilities around the world run by one corporation based in Utah. They have become notorious by their occupants as a place where abuse and crooked dealing is quite a common thing. It would be one thing if all the occupants of the facility were hardcore juveniles but the majority of them were not. Most were simply common children with commoon problems with drugs and anger, like most teenagers don't have those...

Many facilities have opened up around the world and since they have, many of them have been shut down for abuse reasons. High Impact in Baja, Mexico was shut down by the police for harsh treatment of juveniles when they found children living in Army tents out in the middle of the Desert, with a dirt track to walk laps on bare foot to gain freedom and a brick stove to cook heir food in. If one were to throw up on the ground they would be punished, so they had to vomit into their sombrarros that were provided to shield them from the hot desert sun. If a child were to missbehave, their punishment would be to go to "Observational Placement" or O.P. where they would lay chin down in the sand with their hands behind their back for hours. If they were to move out of their position or raise their head from the ground it would be stomped back to it's place by a waiting staff member. When the program was closed down by the Mexican government and the occupants were sent back to the United States many of them had scarred or scabbed up chins. A staff member described to me an instance where he escorted children back from the airport when they arived in the States. He said that they both smelled horrible as if they had not had showers for a very long time, were filthy, and one had urinated on himself when he had arived due to his unbearable joy of ariving back to a less strict program in the States.

Another was Dundee Ranch Academy in Orentina, Costa Rica. Food rations were very scarce and the O.P. treatment was much the same but on a concrete floor instead of sand. A technique was used to "restrain" the students when they got out of hand. It consisted of pulling back on the arms and cramming the knee into a certain spot on the back while the restrained person layed on their stomach, causing their wind-pipe to be closed off untill, in some cases, they passed out. I had heard many screams of children who were taken there by the Jamaican staff who were based there to discipline the children who stepped out of line. In a few cases those who were restrained would return covered in vomit or other fluids from being passed out and were simply told to "get a shower, go to bed, and shut up," or the jamaicans would return for them. Dundee Ranch was also building a "High Impact" style boot-camp on it's campuss with giant walls and two huge electric sliding doors surrounding it. They were attempting to keep it secret as they did not have a license to operate what they already had in the first place. Full scale riots broke out from the children when they saw news cameras coming to cover te abuse problems and interview the students. It had been known the day was coming before though. It was a huge violation of rules to read or have a newspaper in your posession. A few would get a hold of them and find a corner to huddle with others to read them, those who could fluently read Spanish that is. Pictures of the students would constantly show up on the front page of the Tico Times. Eventually it lead to full scale riots and the school was torn apart by those who had been oppressed by it. In one case when a student went to talk to the news cameras he was confronted by the Jamaicans in the middle of the group who then said "Group is over," and we were lined up, all except that one sudent who was told to stay. They looked back and someboy shouted out in anger as they saw the Jamaicans dragging him over the side of the elevated platform by his neck. The family father then quickly told us all to go to our bunks and that we were on shut-down.